The six most lesbian moments from “Friends”

Like millions of other people in the world, Friends is my all-time favorite TV show. To this day I will watch it for hours, laughing at the same thing I laughed at 10 years ago when I saw it for the first time. I remember watching a rerun of the episode where Ross tells everyone Carol is leaving him because she is a lesbian as I sheepishly looked over at my then husband, whom I had recently told I was leaving him because I am a lesbian (btw, it was funnier on TV than in real life, in case you were wondering).

Friends pushed boundaries when it came to LGBT topics and became the first show to have a lesbian wedding on TV, not to mention played a role in creating a new definition of how we viewed family, as we witnessed Ross and his ex-wife Carol (Jane Sibbett) and her new partner Susan (Jessica Hecht) navigate through this new style of parenting. It was a great show for so many reasons, but the best reasons were that they weren’t afraid to have lesbian characters, scenes and actors.

The one at Lamaze class. This is where we witness the blending of a non-traditional family attending Lamaze class together…. as well as Carol comparing child birth to pushing a pot roast through your nose (basically the same thing).